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June 25, 2024 Dispatches

Namibia Court Decriminalizes Consensual Same-Sex Conduct

A Major Step for Equality, Nondiscrimination, and Inclusion in Africa

People hold banners in support of LGBTQ rights outside the high court which made a landmark ruling in favor of LGBTQ communities in Windhoek, Namibia, June 21, 2024.
June 25, 2024 Dispatches

In Russia, a Trial in Name Only

Free Evan Gershkovich

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia,  December 14, 2023.
June 25, 2024 News Release

Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger

New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released

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June 25, 2024 Dispatches

Mali’s Junta Renews Assault on Political Opposition

Release, Drop Charges Against 11 People Wrongfully Arrested

The leader of Mali's junta, Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, in Bamako, Mali, September 22, 2022.
June 24, 2024 Dispatches

UN Meeting Blocks Afghan Women from Agenda, Participation

Doha 3’ Meeting Won’t Address Taliban’s Systemic Abuses of Women’s Rights

UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, February 26, 2024.
June 24, 2024 Dispatches

Respecting Rights in the Response to Militant Attacks in Dagestan

20 Dead, Dozens Wounded in Horrific Attacks

The aftermath of an armed militant attack in Makhachkala, Dagestan, in southern Russia, on June 23, 2024.
June 24, 2024 Commentary

No Accountability for Saudi Crimes as US Mulls New Defense Pact

June 24, 2024 Dispatches

Two Years of Outrage: US Abortion Restrictions since Dobbs

State Bans Violate Rights of Millions to Privacy, Health, Nondiscrimination

Protesters chant during the Women’s Wave National Day of Action for Reproductive Rights, Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 2022.
June 24, 2024 Commentary

EU should shift gears in the face of atrocities in Sudan

A destroyed medical storage facility in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, Sudan, May 2, 2023.
June 23, 2024 Dispatches

Education Still Vulnerable to Attack in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Sign Safe Schools Declaration; Ensure Rights of Children to Safe Education

A burnt-out kindergarten in the Kyrgyz village of Ak-Sai. The village saw widespread looting and destruction while briefly under the control of Tajik forces on September 16, 2022.
June 22, 2024 Dispatches

New Mass Media Law Threatens Freedom of Speech, Information in Kazakhstan

Regulations Will Further Restrict Media Freedom

A cameraman from the "TV & Radio Team of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan" films during the German-Kazakh Economic Forum, Astana, Kazakhstan, June 20, 2023.
June 21, 2024 Statement

Presentation to Mine Ban Treaty Seminar on Alternatives to Using Live Antipersonnel Landmines Retained for Permitted Purposes

Delivered by Steve Goose, Arms Campaigns Director

A POM-3 antipersonnel mine and its parachute that failed to deploy correctly and was found by deminers in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, March 2022.
June 21, 2024 Dispatches

How Employers Can Help End Domestic Violence

Fifth Anniversary of ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment

Indonesian women march to demand the Indonesian government enacts an anti-discrimination law and to advocate for ending sexual violence and harassment at work, March 8, 2024.
June 21, 2024 Commentary

Women’s Autonomy Is Foundational to Queer Justice

Human rights activists Mamiko Moda and Satoko Nagamura with their son, who they had in Japan using a donor.
June 21, 2024 Commentary

Beware of Vietnam’s New Authoritarian President

To Lam’s rise to power is indicative of the Vietnam government’s worsening repression and utter hostility to basic civil and political rights

To Lam swears in as the president of Vietnam at the National Assembly in Hanoi, May 22, 2024.

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